A flood of new information has emerged regarding the murder of a 51-year-old man that took place yesterday, Monday, in Pegeia, Paphos.
As reported by Alpha’s correspondent in Paphos, Kostas Nanos, on the program “Alpha News,” the suspects arrested in connection with the case—the victim’s 42-year-old partner and her 20-year-old son— were brought before the Paphos District Court today, which ordered their detention for eight days. Both the victim and the suspects are British nationals.
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At this time, moreover, the police are searching for the murder weapon (a knife) and another woman from Scotland, who is reportedly a friend of the 20-year-old, according to the suspect’s confession. According to testimony heard in court, this woman agreed, at the 20-year-old’s request, to take the 51-year-old to the hospital, but on the way, a short distance from the house, she became frightened and fled the scene. Before leaving, the woman alerted the police about an injured person in the area.
It should be noted that the 20-year-old, in a voluntary statement to the police, admitted that he was the one who stabbed his mother’s partner inside the family home. Specifically, he stated that at some point he realized there was a heated argument and altercation between the victim and his mother over personal matters, and he intervened when the 51-year-old pulled out a knife to injure his mother, resulting in what happened.
The victim, as we reported yesterday, was found at 6:15 p.m. by a citizen who called the Ambulance Service and reported that on Vatoudion Street in Pegeia, an injured man was sitting in the passenger seat of a car.
The man was transported to Paphos General Hospital, where he died around 7:45 p.m. after succumbing to his injuries.
From the very beginning, however, the scene was cordoned off by a large police presence, which launched an intensive investigation, while members of the Criminal Investigation Department and a medical examiner were also called to the scene. At the family home where the murder appears to have taken place, investigators found no evidence, leading them to suspect that the mother and son may have attempted to clean up the crime scene.
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